workinforwood
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Beautiful Downtown Chicago, our first visit into the actual downtown district. It's actually very nice and spectacular down there, although I have not visited that many of the most major cities in the USA, I have been downtown San Fransisco, New York City, Washington DC, and a billion times to Detroit, and a few other smaller big cities, and Chicago is a million times more beautiful than you'd ever expect. Definitely the best looking huge city in America I have witnessed. I couldn't say enough good things about how impressed I was. Makes Detroit look like an outhouse after a ballgame full of drunk guys passed through.
We did go up the Sky deck..it's a little pricey but worth it. Now I have been to the top of the two largest structures in North America, Sears Tower and CN Tower. I refuse to call Sears tower Willis Tower..I don't care how big a man's ego is, you can't rename an American Icon like that. You wan't to buy the Bank of America tower and rename it, fine, but you don't rename Sears Tower or the Empire State building!
Shedd Aquarium however does not live up to it's hype. It's not a bad aquarium, but you expect it to be more than it is because they hype it as being one of the best in the world. If you like Aquariums, go to Cincinatti. That's a real aquarium. The Dolphin show at Shedd was all filler with no substance. The only thing that truly caught my attention at the aquarium was picture #2, a sea dragon.
For all the good and all the not so great things about Chicago, it's no wonder why people from around the world choose it as a vacation destination.
We did go up the Sky deck..it's a little pricey but worth it. Now I have been to the top of the two largest structures in North America, Sears Tower and CN Tower. I refuse to call Sears tower Willis Tower..I don't care how big a man's ego is, you can't rename an American Icon like that. You wan't to buy the Bank of America tower and rename it, fine, but you don't rename Sears Tower or the Empire State building!
Shedd Aquarium however does not live up to it's hype. It's not a bad aquarium, but you expect it to be more than it is because they hype it as being one of the best in the world. If you like Aquariums, go to Cincinatti. That's a real aquarium. The Dolphin show at Shedd was all filler with no substance. The only thing that truly caught my attention at the aquarium was picture #2, a sea dragon.
For all the good and all the not so great things about Chicago, it's no wonder why people from around the world choose it as a vacation destination.